Team Pirates Science


Ms. Winsor

Schedule for Week Beginning on February 1st, 2009

Focus Topics


Schedule


Day:
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Date:
Feb 1, 2009
Feb 2, 2009
Feb 3, 2009
Feb 4, 2009
Feb 5, 2009
Title or Question
Career Day/Intro Geology
Classifying Rocks
Rock Types
Rock Types
Rock type presentations
Activities:
Students brainstorm
  • what is geology
  • what geologists do
  • where they work
  • why we need them
Intro to "cool geology pics"
Video on intro geology (if time)
  • groups classify a deck
    of cards
  • brainstorm how they
would classify rocks
  • apply that to classify
    rock samples
  • break up in 3 groups
  • use given resources to
research their type of rock
  • go over expectations of presentations
  • go to computer lab-students work on presentation
  • this will take all class
  • students will have a guidline of expectations
  • students present
  • notes on rock types
Homework:
none


practice presentation